FCC Gives OK to SpaceX/T-Mobile Commercial Direct-to-Smartphone Service
The FCC has signed off on SpaceX providing commercial supplemental coverage from space services using its Starlink satellites. In an FCC Space Bureau order issued Tuesday, the bureau said the direct-to-smartphone service -- done in partnership with T-Mobile and using…
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1910-1915 MHz unlinks and 1990-1995 MHz downlinks on a secondary basis -- is likely to avoid causing harmful interference with in-band terrestrial operations. The bureau said it's in T-Mobile's "best interest to ensure that SpaceX will not cause harmful interference." It also said its own "rigorous analysis" of SpaceX plans indicate the satellite company can adjust its equivalent isotropically radiated power in a way that won't cause interference with Omnispace, which had raised interference concerns with the agency.